Pediatric diarrhea is characterized by an increase in the number of stools and thin or watery stools. It is one of the most common diseases in children, especially in infants under 2 years old, and the younger the age, the higher the incidence. It can occur in all seasons, but is more frequent in summer and autumn, and can also occur in winter in the south, and often causes epidemics.
Clinical manifestations are an increase in the number of stools, 3-5 times a day, or as many as 10 times or more, pale yellow, such as egg-flake soup-like, or brown and smelly, there may be a small amount of mucus. It may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, fever, thirst, etc.
The disease is equivalent to modern medical conditions such as infantile dyspepsia, steatorrhea, intestinal malabsorption syndrome, and viral enteritis. According to Chinese medicine, children with weak spleen and stomach, improper feeding, hunger and satiety, raw and cold or unclean diet, or external wind and cold, overheating or cold, can lead to imbalance of spleen and stomach transportation, and cause diarrhea.
(I) Acupuncture point therapy.
General acupuncture points: pushing the upper seven bones 200 times; rubbing the panacea 200 times; supplementing the spleen meridian 200 times; supplementing the large intestine 200 times; clearing the small intestine 200 times; transporting the internal bagua 200 times; and moistening the abdomen 200 times
1.Eating injury type.
Appearance: distension and pain in the epigastrium, pain then wants to diarrhea, diarrhea then pain is reduced, feces is sour and smelly, or like defeated eggs, mouth is light and tasteless, little thought in eating, abdominal distension after eating, bad breath, nausea and vomiting. The tongue is red, the coating is thick and greasy or yellowish, and the pulse is strong and solid.
Mechanism: Food stagnation in the middle jiao, poor qi flow, dysfunction of transportation and digestion.
Treatment: Eliminating food and inducing stagnation
Acupuncture points: 200 times of abdominal massage
Reference formula: Baohe Pill
Effects: Eliminating food stagnation and inducing stagnation.
Treatment: “Danxi Xinfa” for food stagnation in the stomach and intestines
Composition: Shen Qu 9 Hawthorn 9 Poria 9 Semen 9 Chen Pi 9 Forsythia 9 Lycopodium 9
Food regimen: rice and carrot congee
Ingredients recipe: 250 grams of carrot, 50 grams of japonica rice.
Operation: Wash and slice carrot, cook with round-grained rice as porridge
Effect: Broaden the middle and lower the qi, eliminate stagnation
Usage: Eat on an empty stomach, 2 times a day
2. Wind-cold type.
Performance: Diarrhea, light-colored stools, more foam, less odor, intestinal tinnitus, diarrhea, abdominal pain, nasal congestion, runny nose, body heat. The tongue coating is white and greasy, and the pulse is floating and thin or slippery and strong.
Mechanism: Wind-cold external sensation, cold in the stomach and intestines, failure of transportation and transformation
Treatment: Drain wind and dissipate heat
Acupuncture points: open Tianmen 30 times; push Kanguang 30 times; rub the Sun 30 times; rub the high bone behind the ear 30 times; rub the outer Labor Palace 30 times.
Reference formula: Huo Xiang Zheng Qi San
Effects: Clearing the exterior and harmonizing the middle, regulating Qi and resolving dampness.
Indication: “Taiping Huimin and Pharmaceutical Bureau Formula” for malignant cold and fever without sweating, or sweating impermeable, with heat that does not subside, heavy fever in the afternoon, etc.
Ingredients: Patchouli 9 Su Ye 9 Dahurica 9 Platycodon grandiflorus 9 Atractylodes 9 Hou Pu 9 Semen 9 Dahurian Pi 9 Poria 9 Chen Pi 6 Licorice 9 Ginger 9 Jujube 12
Food conditioning: white onion porridge
Ingredients recipe: fat white onion, 60 grams of glutinous rice, 5 slices of ginger, 5 ml of rice vinegar
Operation: cut the white onion into 3 cm long segments (5 segments), then cook the porridge with glutinous rice and ginger, add rice vinegar when the porridge is cooked, and boil it for a while.
Effects: Dispersing cold, warming the middle of the body and promoting Yang.
Usage: Take while hot, 2 times a day
3.Damp-heat type
Performance: thin diarrhea, more water, or like water injection, several or dozens of times a day, deep yellow and smelly feces, or see a little mucus, pain in the abdomen, loss of appetite, burning in the anus, with signs of damp heat, short red urine, fever and thirst. The tongue is yellow and greasy.
Pathogenesis: Damp-heat accumulation, loss of transmission and transformation, downward injection into the large intestine
Treatment: Clearing heat and relieving dampness
Acupuncture points: rubbing the small heart of heaven
Reference formula: Pueraria Mirifica Scutellaria Tang
Effects: Clearing the exterior and the interior.
Treating the symptoms of sun disease with Gui Zhi, the physician counteracts the downward movement, and the diuresis does not stop.
Ingredients: Pueraria Mirifica 12 Scutellariae 9 Radix Scutellariae 6 Glycyrrhiza glabra 9
Food regimen: qQ vegetable congee
Ingredients formula: qQ vegetable (fresh) 400 grams, 50 grams of round-grained rice
Operation: Take qQ vegetables (fresh) and cook porridge with round-grained rice in summer
Effect: Clearing heat and detoxification
Usage: Take at will
4.Spleen deficiency type
Performance: prolonged diarrhea, or recurrent, loose stools, or watery, with milk flaps or undigested food, diarrhea after eating, light in color, not smelly, sometimes light and sometimes heavy, fatigue, dullness, less color. The tongue is pale, the coating is white and slightly greasy, and the pulse is weak.
Mechanism: deficiency of Yang in the spleen and stomach, failure to elevate Yang, failure to transport and transform
Treatment: Strengthening the spleen and benefiting Qi
Acupuncture points: tonifying the spleen meridian 200 times; moistening the abdomen 200 times; kneading the spine 5 times
Reference formula: Ginseng Ling Bai Zhu San
Effects: Tonifying Qi, strengthening the spleen, permeating dampness and harmonizing the stomach.
Treating weakness of the limbs, fullness in the chest and epigastrium, poor diet, slow pulse, etc.
Ingredients: Ginseng 9, Poria 9, Atractylodes 9, Platycodon 6, Yam 9, Licorice 9, White Lentil 9, Lotus 9, Sandy 6, Coix Seed 9
Food regimen: cinnamon orange cake candy
Ingredients recipe: orange cake 100 grams, cinnamon meat 100 grams, sugar 500 grams
Operation.
(1) Put the sugar into a pot, add water and boil it over moderate heat until it thickens, add orange cake and cinnamon meat, mix well, then continue to boil until the sugar liquid is shredded when picked up with chopsticks, cease.
(2) Pour the sugar mixture into an enameled plate coated with vegetable oil and spread it out, then cut it into strips with a knife and then into small pieces when it is slightly cold.
Effects: Strengthening the spleen and stopping diarrhea. It is suitable for prolonged diarrhea and dysentery.
Usage: 3 times a day, 3 pieces each time, for several days
5.Cold and damp type
Performance: stools several times a day or dozens of times a day, lighter in color, may be accompanied by a small amount of mucus, no odor, lack of energy, no thirst or thirst not wanting to drink, abdominal fullness. The tongue is white and greasy, and the pulse is weak and feeble.
Mechanism: Cold and dampness trapping the spleen, inability to separate water and grain
Treatment: Warming the cold dampness, strengthening the spleen and separating the clear
Acupuncture points: pushing San Guan 200 times; rubbing Wai Lao Gong 200 times; tonifying the Kidney meridian 200 times
Reference formula: Lizhong Tang with flavor
Effects: Benefiting Qi, strengthening the spleen, warming the middle and dispelling cold.
Treating Taiyin’s disease of Zi Li without thirst; cholera, etc.
Ingredients: Ginseng 9, Atractylodes Macrocephala 9, Dry Ginger 9, Licorice 9
Food regimen: Sandy nut tripe congee
Ingredients formula: 10 grams of sand, pork belly 1000 grams, pepper, pepper powder, white onion, ginger each appropriate amount
Operation: the pork belly washed, scalded with boiling water, scrape off the inner membrane, put into a casserole with water with pepper, ginger, scallions cooked, fish out the pork belly to cool and cut strips, and then boil the original juice under the belly strips, sand, pepper, MSG, etc., simmering for 20 minutes.
Usage: drink soup and eat tripe
6, violent drainage injury Yin type
Performance: Diarrhea without degree, thin quality like water, yellow and cloudy, short urine, dry or shriveled skin, sunken eyes and fontanelle, crying without tears, depression or restlessness, thirsty to drink, vivid tongue without moss or awning, fine pulse
Pathogenesis: prolonged diarrhea, damaged yin fluid, yin fluid wanting to escape
Treatment: Sour and sweet to astringent Yin
Points to be taken: rubbing Yongquan 200 times; rubbing Erma 200 times, rubbing the abdomen 200 times, rubbing the eight s 100 times
Reference formula: Lian Mei Tang
Effects: Clearing heat and nourishing Yin
Treating thirst and thirsty Yin, and paralysis of the extremities due to loss of moistening of the tendons and veins, etc., caused by summer heat.
Ingredients: Huang Lian 6, Aconite 9, Radix Rehmanniae 9, Ume Plum 9, Mai Men Dong 9
Food regimen: Carp Carp Soup
Ingredients: 10 grams each of wicker, sand, pepper, chili, 1000 grams of crucian carp, two heads of garlic, onion, salt, soy sauce and vegetable oil
Operation: Remove the scales, gills and internal organs from the carp and wash it well. Fill the belly of the fish with peel, celery, wicker, garlic, pickled pepper, green onion, salt, soy sauce and pepper. Put vegetable oil in the pot and boil the carp and put it into the pot and cook it, add water in appropriate amount. Add the water and stew into soup.
Effect: Awaken the spleen and warm the stomach
Usage: Eat with the amount on an empty stomach
7, violent diarrhea injury Yang type
Performance: violent diarrhea, thin stool like water, pale face, weakness, indifferent expression, limbs rebellious, cold sweat, light tongue, white fur, pulse is weak and sunken
Mechanism: prolonged diarrhea, injury to the spleen and kidneys, Yang Qi wanting to escape
Treatment: Warming the Yang to relieve rebellion
Acupuncture points: massage the abdomen 200 times; push San Guan 200 times; knead Wai Lao Gong 200 times; knead the spine 5 times
Reference formula: Ginseng and Lung Mo Tang
Effects: Returning Yang and astringing sweat.
Treating Yang deficiency and dehiscence
Ingredients: Ginseng 9 Radix et Rhizoma 9 Ginger 9 Jujube 9
Food regimen: Chestnut paste
Ingredients: Chestnut kernels and sugar in appropriate amounts
Operation: Grind chestnut kernels into powder, cook into a thin paste, add sugar and mix well.
Effect: Nourishes the stomach and strengthens the spleen
Usage: 1~2 times a day for several days
8.Spleen and kidney Yang deficiency type
Performance: prolonged diarrhea, diarrhea immediately after eating, thin feces, no transformation of finished grains, pale and tasteless mouth, abdominal distension after eating, depression, emaciation, or deficiency of the face and eyes, lack of warmth of the extremities, and less florid face. Pale tongue, thin white fur, weak pulse
Mechanism: deficiency of spleen and kidney yang, failure of vital fire
Treatment: tonifying the spleen and warming the kidney
Points to be taken: pushing San Guan 200 times; tonifying Kidney meridian 200 times; rubbing Xiao Tian Xin 200 times; rubbing Er Ma 200 times; chiropractic 5 times
Reference formula: Radix Rehmanniae Alba
Effects: Warming Yang and dispersing cold.
Treating vomiting and diarrhea caused by deficiency of cold in the spleen and stomach, colic in the abdomen, thundering in the abdomen and cholera.
Ingredients: Radix et Rhizoma Pseudostellariae 9, Ginger 9, Ginseng 30, Atractylodes Macrocephala 9, Licorice 6
Food regimen: chestnut paste
Ingredients recipe: chestnut kernels and sugar in appropriate amounts
Operation: Grind chestnut kernels into powder, cook into a thin paste, add sugar and mix well to serve
Effect: Nourishes the stomach and strengthens the spleen
Usage: 1~2 times a day for several days
Note
(1) Apply “Zheng Hong Cao Anti-diarrheal Ointment” on the patient’s abdomen, massage the abdomen clockwise to wait for the drug to be absorbed, and then irradiate the treatment with infrared light for 5 minutes.
(2) Apply “Zheng Hong Cao Anti-Diarrhea Ointment” to the patient’s seven bones and push upwards about 200 times.
(3) Apply “Zheng Hong Cao anti-diarrheal ointment” to the patient’s stalk and push upward about 200 times
(2) Herbal bath therapy
(1) 30 grams each of papaya, whiteheads, Qinpi, cumin
(2) Boiled Chinese herbal water is added to hot water to soak the body, and submerged below the navel.
(3) Soak treatment time is about 20 minutes.
Note: If the child’s perianal area is moist, use Luk Yi San to rub the area; if there is erosion around the anus, use Stop Sore Cream to rub the area
Tuning care.
1. Care should be taken during the pushing process. Feeding should be regular and quantitative, do not eat unclean food, pay attention to the protection of the abdomen, do not make cold, wash the anus with warm water after each stool, and change the diaper diligently.
2, this disease massage treatment is effective, but does not exclude other therapies, especially if there are factors of infection, can be applied at the same time antibiotics and other drug treatment, such as dehydration and poisoning symptoms, more timely intravenous infusion and other treatment
3, usually can take horsetail hawthorn porridge
Ingredients: 250g of fresh amaranth, 25g of hawthorn, 100g of round-grained rice
Operation.
(1) Wash and chop the amaranth, remove the core of hawthorn and set aside.
(2) Clean the round-grained rice, boil it over high heat, put in the hawthorn, change to low heat and cook until the rice blooms, put in the amaranth and boil it again.
Effect: Clear heat and dampness
Usage: Take 1 dose daily, divided into 2 doses in the morning and 2 doses in the evening, for several days.